🎙️ In this episode of the Men Above Reproach Podcast, we discuss the 1st month of the 90-day Purity Challenge and how Bible Verse Memorization has helped in our pursuit of purity. We also talk about some of the health electives we did, such as averaging 7.5+ hours of sleep and tracking nutrition.

📅 February Challenge: We're doing the Fasting Elective together:

• 📵 Social Media Fast for 1 month
• 🍽️ 48-hour Food Fast

📖 Notes & Tips if You're New to Fasting:

• It’s not a command in the Bible, but it’s implied by how it's talked about.

🙏 Purpose of Fasting:

1. Prayer
2. Guidance
3. Repentance
4. Overcoming temptation

🛠️ Practical Tips:

Choose how you want to grow spiritually—fill the absence of food with a spiritual discipline:

• 📖 Scripture reading or memory
• 🙏 Prayer
• 📝 Journaling
• 🤝 Serving
• 🧘‍♂️ Quiet time & repentance
• ⚔️ Fighting temptation

📩 If you want the official PDF with detailed instructions and rules, email us at: MenAboveReproach@gmail.com

🎧 Listen on:

• 🎵 Spotify
• 🍏 Apple Podcasts
• ▶️ YouTube

• 🔥 Start No Fap/Purity Focus for 90 days
• 📖 Start whole Bible chapter memory

• 💪 Health Elective (7.5 hours sleep, 2x workouts, nutrition tracking)

• 🛠️ Open or Elective

• ✍️ 8 handwritten letters to 8 different people

• 📚 Become a pseudo-expert on a topic and do a book report on it

• 📖 Read 30 chapters or 2 books (adult books)

• 😴 Average 7.5 hours of sleep for 1 month
• 🥗 Track what you eat for 2 of 4 weeks, using the 2nd week to improve one aspect of your nutrition
• 🏋️‍♂️ 2 workouts/day for a month (minimum of 5-min workout)
• 📵 Social Media Fast for 1 month & 48-hr food fast
• 🍽️ Invite someone over for dinner that you know but who isn’t a believer
• ⛪ Invite someone to church with you who doesn’t normally go
• 💬 1 meal & conversation with a homeless person

In this episode of the Men Above Reproach Podcast, we break down the 2024 results and reveal the 2025 Men Above Reproach Challenges.

If you want the official PDF with detailed instructions and rules, please email us at... MenAboveReproach@gmail.com

We also have a spreadsheet we can share.

2025 MEN ABOVE REPROACH CHALLENGES

January Challenge

• Start No Fap/Purity Focus for 90 days

• Start whole Bible chapter memory

March Challenge

• Health Elective (7.5 hours sleep, 2x workouts, nutrition tracking)

May Challenge

• Open or Elective

July Challenge

• 8 handwritten letters to 8 different people

September Challenge

• Become a pseudo-expert on a topic and do a book report on it

November Challenge

• Read 30 chapters or 2 books (adult books)

Elective Challenges

• Average 7.5 hours of sleep for 1 month

• Track what you eat for 2 of 4 weeks, using the 2nd week to improve one aspect of your nutrition.

• 2 workouts/day for a month (minimum of 5-min workout)• Social Media Fast for 1 month & 48-hr food fast

• Invite someone over for dinner that you know but who isn’t a believer & Invite someone to church with you who doesn’t normally go

• 1 meal & conversation with a homeless person

We discuss the final challenges and electives of 2024, and tease out some 2025 challenges. Join the next episode for details about the winner of the 2024 Men Above Reproach Challenge and to hear the finalized 2025 lineup.

• No social media for a month.
• 36 hours without food.
• Journaling what God has taught.
• Making the world's best meatloaf.
• Earning $500 by doing something outside of your job.
• Sharing the Gospel with someone new.